Former team-mate of Lance Armstrong shocked after testing positive for testosterone
A FORMER team-mate of Lance Armstrong was shocked to learn he has tested positive for testosterone and denies doping.
Tom Danielson (right) and Lance Armstrong are former team-mates
Tom Danielson, who served a six-month suspension in the wake of the United States Anti-doping Agency's investigation into Armstrong's US Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams, has been suspended by his Cannondale-Garmin team.
In a series of posts on Twitter, the 35-year-old American wrote: "Tonight (Sunday night) has been one of the worst nights of my life. While I was eating dinner with my team the night before Tour of Utah I received a call.
"For USADA notifying me that a out of competition test I gave July 9th has tested positive for, from what I understand, synthetic testosteron (sic).
"I have not taken this or any other banned substance.
"I spoke with them and my team and I will have to sit out the Tour of Utah as I wait for the B sample as well as look into all the possible ways that could have produced this result.
"I would never ever take anything like this especially after everything I have gone through the last years. This makes absolutely no sense."
Danielson was eighth in the 2011 Tour de France.